Mountains
highest peak of the Silesian Beskids, 1,257 m, with a chairlift, a PTTK mountain hut and ski runs
Mountains
a highlander cabin from 1918 below the Karkoszczonka Pass, with accommodation, catering and a spa zone
Churches and monasteries
a wooden church from 1800 with late Baroque furnishings from a monastery in Nowy Sącz
Churches and monasteries
shrine at Górka beside the trail to Klimczok, with an Apparition Chapel and a grotto with a spring
Churches and monasteries
a church from 1991-1995 in Salmopol, where Evangelicals from Wisła settled in 1803
old motorcycles and radio sets by the blue trail to Klimczok
Solo in Szczyrk: a climb to Skrzyczne, the Chata Wuja Toma hostel, a wooden church of the late 1700s, the Górka shrine and a technology museum.
Szczyrk lies in the Silesian Beskids and pairs short mountain walks with religious heritage. Most places suit a walk on your own: a trail, a church, a small exhibition. More ideas for going out alone are in solo in Silesia, and the resort's whole offer in things to do in Szczyrk.
Pick Skrzyczne or a short trip to the Chata Wuja Toma hostel on the Karkoszczonka Pass. The first rises higher than any other summit in the range, while the second is a shelter open all year in a log cottage dating from 1918.
The summit of Skrzyczne lies at 1,257 m and forms part of the Crown of Polish Mountains. A chairlift climbs from the town, and near the top you will find a PTTK hostel, a radio-TV mast and ski runs. How the village became a ski resort is told in an article on Szczyrk's road from village to resort, and the region's slopes are covered in a text on ski areas of Szczyrk and the Żywiec region.
Under the Karkoszczonka Pass, at Pasterska 9, stands Chata Wuja Toma, a shelter for walkers throughout the year. It was built in the highland tradition in 1918. Resort guests choose it for short walks.
Szczyrk has three places of worship that deserve a quiet visit, plus a small museum that suits poorer weather. The wooden church stands for Beskid architecture, and the Górka shrine lies by the trail to Klimczok.
St James's stands on Kolorowa Street. The shingle-roofed building went up in 1797-1800 and has acted as a diocesan shrine since 2011. It is one stop on the Wooden Architecture Trail in the Beskid loop, and its interior is filled with late Baroque heritage. In Salmopol is the Evangelical church, finished in 1995 to plans by the engineer Karol Gaś; the local congregation is over two centuries old, since the first families moved there from Wisła in 1803.
The Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Poland sits at 670 m on Górka, by the Klimczok trail. Devotion here goes back to 1894; beside the Apparition chapel is a grotto with a spring. Szczyrk is one of four Marian shrines set side by side in a separate article. On the same trail is the Museum of Technology at Podmagura 1a, where old MZ, K-750 with sidecar, WFM and SHL motorcycles stand beside radio sets.
Its summit is at 1,257 m, higher than any other mountain in the Silesian Beskids. A chairlift runs from the town.
Yes, it is a year-round tourist hostel in a highland cottage of 1918, below the Karkoszczonka Pass.
On Kolorowa Street, in the church of St James from the late 1700s. It is one of the stops on the Wooden Architecture Trail.
Vintage appliances, motorbikes and radios. The building is on Podmagura Street, next to the blue path up Klimczok.
